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Pampa Ilusión
GenreTelenovela
Written by
  • Víctor Carrasco
  • Larissa Contreras
  • María José Galleguillos
  • Alexis Moreno
Directed byVicente Sabatini
Starring
Opening theme"Y tenía un lunar" (Celia Gamez)
Country of originChile
Original languageSpanish
No. of episodes114
Original release
NetworkTVN

Pampa Ilusión (Illusion of Pampa) is a Chilean telenovela produced by TVN. It was written by Víctor Carrasco, Larissa Contreras, María José Galleguillos and Alexis Moreno. Directed by Vicente Sabatini. Set in the desolate interior of the Atacama Desert in 1934 it classifies both as a historical romance and a working-class melodrama dealing with tyranny, classism and misogyny as principal motives, but given the wide array of characters there are substories centering in themes such as innocence, religious hypocrisy, unrequited love, narcissism, betrayal and prostitution.

Plot

In the Atacama Desert, lies the saltpeter (Nitrate) mine Pampa illusion, that after years of economic boom, faces an uncertain future due to global crisis.

The owner of this office is Mr. William Clark (Héctor Noguera), a despot, bedridden, English-born businessman who refuses to accept the end of his economic prosperity. The daily life and routine in the saltpeter mine is interrupted by the arrival of his daughter Inés (Claudia di Girolamo), a doctor, banished from the family along with her mother when she was a newborn. She will come to discover the reasons for the exile and humiliation suffered by her mother thirty years before, risking her life when her father orders aprehension of any unknown women who enters the office. to avoid detection she takes a double life: by day disguised as a man called "Dr. Florencio Aguirre" Mr. Clarck's GP and eventual confidant; and by night re-takes her true personality as Inés Clark.

Under the shadow of William, lives Manuel (Francisco Melo), his son (and unknowingly, younger brother of Inés), a weak and insecure man that spends his days trying to please and win the approval of his mentally abusive father and hide from him the near bankruptcy of the business.

Then there is Jose Miguel Inostroza (Francisco Reyes), Clark's right arm, an exemplary employee who follows Mr. Clark's orders blindly, even if the orders are harmful and abussive to the workers of Pampa Ilusion. His obedience is affected by the arrival of Inés, for whom he falls in love, Forcing him to choose between his loyalty and his principles.

Both as "Dr. Aguirre" and herself, Inés gets involved in the daily lives of the workers and administratives of the mine in the midst of the revolution against her father's oppressive rule, and slowly wins over the loyalty and friendship of the inhabitants both poor and wealthy. Among these are Clara Montes (Blanca Lewin), A wealthy socialité and feminist and Inés's primary confidant, and Alberto Quispe (Juan Falcón), Clara's secret lover and a peruvian miner fighting discrimination against his own.

Cast

Aristocracy

Inhabitants

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